cob
cob
Definition
cob (käb)
noun
- Brit., Dialectal
- a lump or small mass, as of coal
- a leader; chief
- ☆ a corncob
- a male swan
- a short-legged, thickset riding horse
Etymology: ME, prob. < LowG, as in Du kobbe < Gmc base *kubb-, something rounded
cob
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- corn: Voice-over: There's a whole summer of sunshine in these ripe cobs of corn.
Converse of object
- welsh: She was a 14.3hh welsh cob she was a babe, I always led the treks on her.
- make: Would go on in any field, would also make superb show cob.
- use: Repairs to cob walls using cob or cob blocks or cob tiles. iii.
- have: The sweetcorn plants have rocketed up, and some of them have three cobs per plant.
Adjective modifier
- colored: A good looking colored cob of 5 yrs who would be ideal for any member of the family.
- Welsh: She has sold her lorry, but is keeping chestnut Welsh cob Prince, and she and husband Colin are having a rest.
- traditional: She has inherited her lovely nature from her dam who is a traditional calm cob.
- old: The section on repairing old cob is particularly useful.
Modifies a noun
- gelding: Heavy weight piebald irish cob gelding with lots of feather.
- mare: I have a 15.2 hh 5year old cob mare who will not stay in a stable.
- barn: Rashleigh and Thrift Rashleigh and Thrift were originally part of a large cob barn which was used by the local fishermen.
- cottage: SUBJECT: Advice needed to build doorway in cob cottage.
- oven: Some of the food will be cooked in the on site cob oven.
- wall: Cornish cob walls were usually laid on a ring of stone, to raise the mud walls above the damp ground.
Noun used with modifier
- corn: These classic corn cobs have 8 rows of sweet corn seeds, the mark of the original Golden Bantam Sweet Corn strain.
- maize: Then ten maize grains are shelled off from the center of each maize cob.
- Gypsy: She has the most wonderful placid nature, just as a gypsy cob should.
- weight: A lovely heavy weight cob who is a proper stunner to look at with the sweetest nature going.
- show: Would go on in any field, would also make superb show cob.
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- cobalt glance
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